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As James Watt indicated, the rapture is coming momentarily so why preserve anything when the fastest possible extraction of anything of value can be used the strenghten the influence of conservative religious rural communities and big corporations(which of course don't care about religion but will encourage it to keep the peasants in line). Jesus is coming momentarily to send all who haven't accepted rule by Pat Robertson and James Dobson to hell, so why preserve anything? This is the right wing; religious nuts and and corporate profiteers. I doubt the Senate will let this go through though; the poitical center of the body politic shows signs of stirring from it's 911 induced political coma.